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| Getz/Gilberto | 
| Artists: Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $6.35
You Save: $12.63 (67%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $5.78
Avg. Customer Rating:  (148 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1455
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 521414
UPC: 731452141422
EAN: 0731452141422
ASIN: B0000047CX
Release Date: May 20, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
light the candles, music to eat by January 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simply the best Latin music on the planet. No dinner party should be without this one. Romance relaxation and rejuvenation, you can feel your blood pressure coming down while you're listening.
Saxophone at its sexiest.
Gerz/Gilberto September 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I listened to this music back when it was first played and it was great. I purchased this CD as a gift for someone who is a fan of "Girl From Ipanema." However, I liked it so much I kept the CD.
It was first nostalgic but after listening to all of the CD it is classic Brazilian Music interpreted by one of the best American Saxophonist of his time and a wonderful voice. It is great having both renditions Portuguese and the 45rpm. GREAT ALBUM!!!
Cool all around relaxing CD August 20, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read a review for this CD in one of my women's magazines as a good jazz blues cd that would be something you could throw in your cd player and play through during a dinner party or martini party. My husband and I love it. I was a bit skeptical when I saw how long it has been around, but we keep ours in our disc changer and play it often!
 The bonus tracks are NOT the original 45 rpm singles August 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Need not to say this is a classic, the 8 songs from the original album are all worth more than 5 stars, but the bonus tracks "The girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado" are not the ORIGINAL version of the 45 rpm singles, a regret to all the consumers. You can watch the original 45 rpm version of "The girl from Ipanema" on 'YouTube', the MTV showing Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz performing the song before some female audience, Astrud was sitting among the audience when she started singing. The opening of the song is an intro of vibraphone (which was seen in the MTV and was a major instrument in the song), not the humming by Joao Gilberto. Besides, I believe the single version of Corcovado (Quiet Nights) is the version available in "Getz Au Go Go" (please noted that even though "Getz Au Go Go" is listed as a live recording, in fact it is a studio recording with overdubbed applause as revealed by the producer Phil Schaap). Furthermore, this REMASTERED version has the left and right channel reversed as compared with the earlier version of this CD(without the bonus tracks) released in the 80's. If Verve couldn't locate the 45 rpm originals from its vault, that's fine, but it should do more research work than to give us incorrect information and created edited versions of the songs to fool us, which is very dishonest.
It just doesn't get any better...... June 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
....than this. Some very good albums may define a singer; some great ones, like "Tapestry" and "No Secrets", can define a whole generation. Here, we have an album so great we could use it to define "music".
There are conflicting stories as to how this recording, or, at least, Astrud Gilberto's part in it, came to be. At this distance in time, who cares? The late Stan Getz was said to be an unpleasant man. Who cares? He was, you see, a genius, who played the sax like nobody before, or since. Astrud Gilberto supports some political causes that I can't stand. Who cares? She's the prototype of a whole genre...another may be a little prettier, or have a little better voice, but Astrud is still "the original"; all others are copies. Music and politics shouldn't mix, anyway.
Here we have a collection of talent in one place not equaled till "The Blues Brothers". Besides Getz and Astrud, we have Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud's then husband, Joao. Great music, well played, and recorded to perfection. EVERYBODY needs at least one copy of this.
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